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Foreigners descend on Sicily for bargain property

Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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Sicily offers warm sunshine throughout the year and also many beaches.

ROME: Foreign buyers are swooping on deserted villages in Sicily to snap up homes for as little as 10,000 euros, propping up a property market in freefall as Italy suffers its longest-ever recession."When you go to the pizzeria now, you often meet more foreigners than Sicilians," said Salvatore Sansemi, mayor of Cianciana, near the southern city of Agrigento....

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